Merge branch 'mo/bin-wrappers'

* mo/bin-wrappers:
  INSTALL: document a simpler way to run uninstalled builds
  run test suite without dashed git-commands in PATH
  build dashless "bin-wrappers" directory similar to installed bindir

.gitignore

@@ -2,6 +2,7 @@
 /GIT-CFLAGS
 /GIT-GUI-VARS
 /GIT-VERSION-FILE
+/bin-wrappers/
 /git
 /git-add
 /git-add--interactive

INSTALL

@@ -38,13 +38,17 @@ Issues of note:
    Interactive Tools package still can install "git", but you can build it
    with --disable-transition option to avoid this.
 
- - You can use git after building but without installing if you
-   wanted to.  Various git commands need to find other git
-   commands and scripts to do their work, so you would need to
-   arrange a few environment variables to tell them that their
-   friends will be found in your built source area instead of at
-   their standard installation area.  Something like this works
-   for me:
+ - You can use git after building but without installing if you want
+   to test drive it.  Simply run git found in bin-wrappers directory
+   in the build directory, or prepend that directory to your $PATH.
+   This however is less efficient than running an installed git, as
+   you always need an extra fork+exec to run any git subcommand.
+
+   It is still possible to use git without installing by setting a few
+   environment variables, which was the way this was done
+   traditionally.  But using git found in bin-wrappers directory in
+   the build directory is far simpler.  As a historical reference, the
+   old way went like this:
 
 	GIT_EXEC_PATH=`pwd`
 	PATH=`pwd`:$PATH

Makefile

@@ -431,6 +431,15 @@ ALL_PROGRAMS = $(PROGRAMS) $(SCRIPTS)
 # what 'all' will build but not install in gitexecdir
 OTHER_PROGRAMS = git$X
 
+# what test wrappers are needed and 'install' will install, in bindir
+BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += git
+BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += git-upload-pack
+BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += git-receive-pack
+BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += git-upload-archive
+BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += git-shell
+
+BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NO_X += git-cvsserver
+
 # Set paths to tools early so that they can be used for version tests.
 ifndef SHELL_PATH
 	SHELL_PATH = /bin/sh
@@ -1762,19 +1771,30 @@ endif
 
 ### Testing rules
 
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-chmtime$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-ctype$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-date$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-delta$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-dump-cache-tree$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-genrandom$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-match-trees$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-parse-options$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-path-utils$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-sha1$X
-TEST_PROGRAMS += test-sigchain$X
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-chmtime
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-ctype
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-date
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-delta
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-dump-cache-tree
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-genrandom
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-match-trees
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-parse-options
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-path-utils
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sha1
+TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X += test-sigchain
+
+TEST_PROGRAMS = $(patsubst %,%$X,$(TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X))
 
-all:: $(TEST_PROGRAMS)
+test_bindir_programs := $(patsubst %,bin-wrappers/%,$(BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NEED_X) $(BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NO_X) $(TEST_PROGRAMS_NEED_X))
+
+all:: $(TEST_PROGRAMS) $(test_bindir_programs)
+
+bin-wrappers/%: wrap-for-bin.sh
+	@mkdir -p bin-wrappers
+	$(QUIET_GEN)sed -e '1s|#!.*/sh|#!$(SHELL_PATH_SQ)|' \
+	     -e 's|@@BUILD_DIR@@|$(shell pwd)|' \
+	     -e 's|@@PROG@@|$(@F)|' < $< > $@ && \
+	chmod +x $@
 
 # GNU make supports exporting all variables by "export" without parameters.
 # However, the environment gets quite big, and some programs have problems
@@ -1835,11 +1855,13 @@ endif
 gitexec_instdir_SQ = $(subst ','\'',$(gitexec_instdir))
 export gitexec_instdir
 
+install_bindir_programs := $(patsubst %,%$X,$(BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NEED_X)) $(BINDIR_PROGRAMS_NO_X)
+
 install: all
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) -d -m 755 '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)'
 	$(INSTALL) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(gitexec_instdir_SQ)'
-	$(INSTALL) git$X git-upload-pack$X git-receive-pack$X git-upload-archive$X git-shell$X git-cvsserver '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
+	$(INSTALL) $(install_bindir_programs) '$(DESTDIR_SQ)$(bindir_SQ)'
 	$(MAKE) -C templates DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
 ifndef NO_PERL
 	$(MAKE) -C perl prefix='$(prefix_SQ)' DESTDIR='$(DESTDIR_SQ)' install
@@ -1953,6 +1975,7 @@ clean:
 		$(LIB_FILE) $(XDIFF_LIB)
 	$(RM) $(ALL_PROGRAMS) $(BUILT_INS) git$X
 	$(RM) $(TEST_PROGRAMS)
+	$(RM) -r bin-wrappers
 	$(RM) *.spec *.pyc *.pyo */*.pyc */*.pyo common-cmds.h TAGS tags cscope*
 	$(RM) -r autom4te.cache
 	$(RM) config.log config.mak.autogen config.mak.append config.status config.cache

t/README

@@ -75,6 +75,15 @@ appropriately before running "make".
 	As the names depend on the tests' file names, it is safe to
 	run the tests with this option in parallel.
 
+--with-dashes::
+	By default tests are run without dashed forms of
+	commands (like git-commit) in the PATH (it only uses
+	wrappers from ../bin-wrappers).  Use this option to include
+	the build directory (..) in the PATH, which contains all
+	the dashed forms of commands.  This option is currently
+	implied by other options like --valgrind and
+	GIT_TEST_INSTALLED.
+
 You can also set the GIT_TEST_INSTALLED environment variable to
 the bindir of an existing git installation to test that installation.
 You still need to have built this git sandbox, from which various

t/test-lib.sh

@@ -105,6 +105,8 @@ do
 		verbose=t; shift ;;
 	-q|--q|--qu|--qui|--quie|--quiet)
 		quiet=t; shift ;;
+	--with-dashes)
+		with_dashes=t; shift ;;
 	--no-color)
 		color=; shift ;;
 	--no-python)
@@ -562,19 +564,8 @@ test_done () {
 # Test the binaries we have just built.  The tests are kept in
 # t/ subdirectory and are run in 'trash directory' subdirectory.
 TEST_DIRECTORY=$(pwd)
-if test -z "$valgrind"
+if test -n "$valgrind"
 then
-	if test -z "$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED"
-	then
-		PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
-		GIT_EXEC_PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..
-	else
-		GIT_EXEC_PATH=$($GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path)  ||
-		error "Cannot run git from $GIT_TEST_INSTALLED."
-		PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
-		GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH:-$GIT_EXEC_PATH}
-	fi
-else
 	make_symlink () {
 		test -h "$2" &&
 		test "$1" = "$(readlink "$2")" || {
@@ -636,6 +627,24 @@ else
 	PATH=$GIT_VALGRIND/bin:$PATH
 	GIT_EXEC_PATH=$GIT_VALGRIND/bin
 	export GIT_VALGRIND
+elif test -n "$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED" ; then
+	GIT_EXEC_PATH=$($GIT_TEST_INSTALLED/git --exec-path)  ||
+	error "Cannot run git from $GIT_TEST_INSTALLED."
+	PATH=$GIT_TEST_INSTALLED:$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH
+	GIT_EXEC_PATH=${GIT_TEST_EXEC_PATH:-$GIT_EXEC_PATH}
+else # normal case, use ../bin-wrappers only unless $with_dashes:
+	git_bin_dir="$TEST_DIRECTORY/../bin-wrappers"
+	if ! test -x "$git_bin_dir/git" ; then
+		if test -z "$with_dashes" ; then
+			say "$git_bin_dir/git is not executable; using GIT_EXEC_PATH"
+		fi
+		with_dashes=t
+	fi
+	PATH="$git_bin_dir:$PATH"
+	GIT_EXEC_PATH=$TEST_DIRECTORY/..
+	if test -n "$with_dashes" ; then
+		PATH="$TEST_DIRECTORY/..:$PATH"
+	fi
 fi
 GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR=$(pwd)/../templates/blt
 unset GIT_CONFIG

wrap-for-bin.sh

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+# wrap-for-bin.sh: Template for git executable wrapper scripts
+# to run test suite against sandbox, but with only bindir-installed
+# executables in PATH.  The Makefile copies this into various
+# files in bin-wrappers, substituting
+# @@BUILD_DIR@@ and @@PROG@@.
+
+GIT_EXEC_PATH='@@BUILD_DIR@@'
+GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR='@@BUILD_DIR@@/templates/blt'
+GITPERLLIB='@@BUILD_DIR@@/perl/blib/lib'
+PATH='@@BUILD_DIR@@/bin-wrappers:'"$PATH"
+export GIT_EXEC_PATH GIT_TEMPLATE_DIR GITPERLLIB PATH
+
+exec "${GIT_EXEC_PATH}/@@PROG@@" "$@"